Dear theists;
Before you take it upon yourself to tell me that I have no morals and will burn in hell for not believing in whatever god you've selected, please do me a favour.
Go outside on a clear night and look up at the heavens. Try to visualise the vastness of our solar system, which orbits a single star. Now picture that our sun is merely one of the 300 billion stars that form our Milky Way. Finally, consider that our Milky Way galaxy is just one of billions that span the universe.
When you have done this, you will have come close to comprehending the enormity of the fuck I don't give for your archaic, bigoted and infantile opinions about creation and the way I choose to live my life.
Sincerely, An atheist
Nobody out there knows we’re dealing with COVID; anti-vaxxers; people who think a Jewish carpenter walked on water, died, came back to life, then flew into the sky; and people who think that 2+2=4 is merely an opinion.
So “god” could have a “personal relationship” with you.
“Only the most extraordinarily self-centred species, could imagine that all this was going on for our sake.“ - Christopher Hitchens
There are 31,000 stars in this photo, taken by @godFreeWorld (not including those in distant galaxies).
When you’re a kid, the neighbourhood seems large, and the bully on the block is the thing to be most feared. But when you grow up, you discover the size of the world, the number and variety of people, and realise that bully was insignificant. So it is with gods.
The gods of man, obsessed with which primates on one little planet can marry each other and what they do with their genitals, are too tiny, pathetic and deficient for the universe.
(Large size: 2048x1337)
More about the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field.
EDIT: jsdillon adds some caveats:
- Some of the dots in the HUDF are stars, though very few. You can tell because they look like four pointed stars. The four points are an optical effect due to the support struts of the secondary mirror.
- 1 trillion stars is very high for a galaxy. Very, very few galaxies have that many. 10 billion is more typical.
- Though the light from the furthest of those galaxies took about 13 billion years to get to us, it doesn’t mean that those galaxies are 13 billion light years away. In fact, due to the expansion of the universe, the object is now about 30 billion light years away from us.
Reminder: don’t eat pork, let dudes marry dudes or enjoy the capabilities of your genitals.